Friendliness

Quick meaning: Friendliness is a noun meaning The quality of being friendly.

Meaning

The quality of being friendly.

Example Sentences

To foreigners we often seem guileless and overchatty, an impression which is dispersed when they find that much of our friendliness is just the ebullition of the moment and does not carry with it any permanence of devotion.

Finding us easy in our ways, he […] told me a cock-and-bull story with the moral of another five francs for the narrator. The thing was palpably absurd; but I paid up, and at once dropped all friendliness of manner, and kept him in his place as an inferior with freezing British dignity. He saw in a moment that he had gone too far, and killed a willing horse; his face fell; I am sure he would have refunded if he could only have thought of a decent pretext.

Word Forms

• friendlinesses

Synonyms for friendliness

Depending on context, synonyms include affability, amiability, amicability, approachability, bonhomie, cordiality.

Antonyms for friendliness

Common opposites include hostility, unfriendliness.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include cordiality, cordial, conviviality, benevolence, goodwill, kindness.

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